Sr. SDET Engineer

The role

A senior-level automation engineer will build scalable automation, guardrails, and validation systems for a healthcare platform. This role involves shaping automation strategy and embedding quality into the SDLC to increase delivery velocity and release safety.

What you will do

• Own and evolve end-to-end test automation strategy across UI, API, config changes, and critical workflows
• Design and maintain scalable E2E automation frameworks for multi-tenant, payer-specific workflows
• Build automated validation for deployment guardrails, release readiness, and production change safety
• Partner with Platform/DevOps to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Create automated coverage for high-risk paths
• Drive test reliability, flake reduction, and actionable failure signals
• Define and enforce quality gates for prod releases, blue/green and canary deployments, and config changes
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to ensure business outcomes are testable, measurable, and observable
• Improve test data management and environment stability
• Mentor engineers on testability, automation best practices, and quality-first development

Required qualifications

• 6+ years in QA Automation, SDET, or test engineering roles supporting production systems
• Strong hands-on experience building automation frameworks for UI and API testing from the ground up, and setting up repeatable datasets
• Experience with regression testing and building test automations from test plans
• Deep experience with modern E2E frameworks (Playwright or Cypress or PyTest) using TypeScript
• Strong API automation experience (REST-based testing frameworks)
• Experience validating cloud-native systems on AWS
• Comfortable working in microservices and event-driven architectures
• Experience testing configuration-driven systems, feature flags, and environment-specific behavior
• Strong debugging skills across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
• Proven ability to partner with platform / infra teams on release pipelines and deployment safety
• Good knowledge of Information practices
• Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process

Nice to have

• Performance and reliability testing experience (e.g., k6 or similar)
• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Healthcare or regulated domain experience
• Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work

Before you apply

• Connect with Talent Acquisition
• Meet with the Hiring Manager
• Behavioral Interview(s)
• Case Study
• Interview with Senior Leadership

About the company

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs. The company improves collaboration and reduces burden through an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making.